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WisCon!

Wed, 29 May 2013 03:03:51 GMT

1. I went! I was on panels and everything! Check out #QueeringText and #UsingTumblr for the upshots of the ones I was on.

2. The other upshot of the Queering the Text panel: I may or may not have said I would write fic where Stiles wakes up as a girl in the same body she went to sleep in.

3. Saturday night I got unexpectedly fantastically drunk on the homebrew at the--uh, I have no idea which party that was. But their hard cider was really great! And then I vaguely recall being down in the lobby having a lot of feelings about The Hockey Sweater, wolf puppies, and Commodore Jole and his sailboat.

Then I felt like I was going to throw up, and iulia took me upstairs and very patiently shepherded me through not throwing up, getting into jammies, hydrating, getting into bed, and so on. She even plugged in my phone, you guys. She's the greatest.

4. I should probably mention that a bit earlier on Saturday night we watched the hockey game together and in the course of pretending to punch Iulia in the face for celebrating a Chicago goal I came perilously close to actually punching her in the face. /o\

5. Further annals of marriedness: Iulia and I wore matching jerseys all day Saturday (Red Wings, Lidstrom and Yzerman) and Sunday (Blackhawks, Toews and Kowalski). People were confused when we no longer matched on Monday.

6. We roomed with fairestcat and commodorified, both of whom put more effort into clothes and makeup for any given evening of parties than I put into clothes and makeup for an entire year, which was fascinating to watch.

7. Cat and Marna were both on the panel I got up early enough to go to on Sunday morning after being magnificently drunk Saturday night: ( What We Write About When We Write About Rape )

8. Haiku earring party! I wrote and Iulia betaed a haiku to earn Iulia a pair of earrings (I don't wear earrings but like writing haiku; Iulia likes earrings but is not always into writing haiku, so the division of labor works out well.)

9. Viiiiid paaaaarty! Which was awesome and full of vids and fangirls and also just made me pine for VividCon. Can it be time for VividCon right now?

10. Sunday night turned into lots of fangirls on the floor in somebody's hotel room, passing around whatever drinks people had left at that point in the con (Fruit Loops vodka made an appearance), which is always pretty much my favorite part of any con. ♥

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Wheeee!

Sun, 17 Feb 2013 16:51:49 GMT

Registered and confirmed for vividcon, despite the vagaries of the internet service here (I'm at a campground for a weekend with my extended family where, no lie, the user agreement for the wifi ends with "God is watching and so are we").

Registration is not yet filled up, so anybody who wants to come but missed registering last night, there's still a chance! :D

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unsurprising things

Tue, 04 Sep 2012 01:31:06 GMT

1) If you take five thousand people from all over the world, from infants to old dudes on motorized scooters, and put them all in a hotel together for a long weekend, and no one is sleeping enough or eating right and a pretty large proportion of everybody is drinking every night, con crud happens! And if you are in a prominent public-contact position like the information desk, it will probably happen to you!

Alternately, if I hang out a lot with daveamongus when he has a cold, by the end of the weekend I will probably have the same cold.

2) The Derek/Stiles fic full of pack feels that was not any of the things I meant to write last week is now over ten thousand words and the porn has not yet actually commenced. But I am still convinced I can finish it tonight.

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Home from VividCon!

Mon, 13 Aug 2012 02:09:23 GMT

So, hey, I was at VividCon this weekend! I... neglected to post and say I was going, and apparently managed to avoid even people who were at the con noticing I was there for much of the weekend, so ... clearly my stealth skills are top-notch?

That said, I did get to hang out with lots of awesome people and watch lots of excellent vids. I would try to recap or name people or something except my internal monologue looks sort of like:

I HAVE ALL THE NEVILLE FEELS, WHAT NEVILLE STORY CAN I--TONY! KIDDIFIED TONY STARK! LET ME SPEND HALF AN HOUR CONTEMPLATING THE PROCESS BY WHICH HE GETS KIDDI--WAIT HOOKER!STILES--WAIT I'M SUPPOSED TO BE WRITING WOLVES--YAY PIMPING PEOPLE INTO GK--AWWW TONY IN A HOSPITAL BED--OH MY GOD ARYA STARK FEEEEEEELS--I NEED TO WATCH HAVEN--AND JUSTIFIED--OH GOD PAPA STILINSKI IS GOING TO KILL DEREK--NO! WOLVES! NATE AND BRAD AND WOLVES!--PEANUT BUTTER COOKIES--CAKE-FLAVORED VODKA--DEFECTIVE VODKA, WHAT EVEN HAPPENED THERE--COMMUNITY FEEEEEEEEEEEEEELS--OH MAN HOMELAND I NEED TO WATCH HOMELAND--NEVILLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLE OH GOD I HAVE TO STOP CRYING ABOUT NEVILLE--TONYYYYYYYYYY--WHY ARE THERE NO SPY GAME VIDS THERE SHOULD BE SPY GAME VIDS--OH MAN IT WOULD BE COOL IF SOMEONE MADE A VID OF TREE OF LIFE THAT MADE IT HAVE A NARRATIVE--I DID FIGURE OUT VIRTUAL DUB, HOW HARD CAN IT BE?--NOOOOOOO WOLVES, I'M WRITING WOLVES....

...so it's going to take a while before I can do anything more focused than scraping off the rest of my manicure and attempting to scroll back to the last place I stopped reading on Tumblr.

PS Not that I am writing or plotting any kind of Teen Wolf fic or anything but is there a generally agreed-upon internal chronology of the first season? Dates? If there isn't one that makes sense, does anybody have a theory? I NEED SOMETHING TO WORK WITH. NOT THAT I AM WORKING ON ANYTHING.

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Full circle

Sat, 26 May 2012 00:00:33 GMT

So I'm sitting in my hotel room at WisCon, taking some quiet post-dinner pre-party time to hang out with Iulia and try to get some writing done on my Nate/Brad babyfic.

And it occurs to me that a year ago I was at WisCon spending quiet time in the hotel room with Iulia reading One Bullet Away and trying to figure out how I would make a Companion to Wolves fusion work. So I guess I've been in this fandom for a year now! \o/

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assorted things

Sun, 22 Aug 2010 20:55:37 GMT

1) As I haven't said this anywhere outside of comments and IMs yet: Although nothing can be promised, iulia and I firmly intend to propose and volunteer to VJ a Lord King Bad Vid show for VividCon 2011. We can't make it happen without new and new-ish vids, so if you are a vidder reading this consider this your notice that any LKBVs you choose to make in the next ten months could well find a home there! Hypothetically! Maybe!

And if the vid show thing doesn't work out, well. Who doesn't want to see more Lord King Bad Vids? There are whole fandoms that missed out on the last round due to not really existing yet. I feel like Merlin, for example, just cries out for Lord King Bad Vidding.

2) When you are feeling physically wretched for an assortment of not-very-good reasons, there is nothing like seven episodes of Mythbusters in twenty-four hours to make you feel better. Although the sleep, drugs, and pizza probably helped.

3) So last summer, maybe you remember this, I got kind of hooked on the Varg Veum movies, which are from Norway. So, also sometime last summer, I think, I became a fan of Varg Veum on Facebook. It's really entertaining to see occasional posts on my Facebook newsfeed entirely in Norsk. I'm pretty sure that the first of the six new movies is premiering, possibly at some sort of film festival, on Thursday the 26th, and from the set photos posted a week or two ago, I'd guess they're hard at work making more movies.

Now I just have to wait for the movie(s) to make it to DVD, get subtitled in English, and cross the Atlantic. No sweat. In the meantime, I should chase down another of the novels in translation....

4)

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5) Speaking of Amy Pond and my undying love for her, Neil Gaiman shares a scene cut from the episode he wrote, which is about to go to table-reading.

This year I may be looking forward to the Amy and Her Boys Christmas Special (which, to be clear, is not the episode mentioned above, but still, AMY AND HER BOYS) more than Yuletide.

6) Also speaking of Amy Pond, I was following David Hewlett for a while on Twitter (because Joe Flanigan got on Twitter and I was following him and it seemed obvious) but then I had to un-follow him for his egregious failure to appreciate Amy Pond. :(

The Flan continues to be pretty entertaining, though.

7) I should write something. Speaking of Amy Pond...

( I am too entertained by the little bit of this I've written not to share. )

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My one-sentence VividCon 2010 con report

Tue, 17 Aug 2010 01:07:34 GMT

Periodically when I am doing something else entirely in the course of normal life, like doing my job or something, I suddenly remember that toward the end of Club Vivid I was literally on my knees on the edge of the dance floor in front of renenet and sisabet, drunkenly but sincerely begging them to bring back Lord King Bad Vid next year.

Sometimes I think, Well, I had had a lot of vodka, these things happen.

Sometimes I think, No, seriously, I want LKBV to come back next year. Who's with me?

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Help me, VividConners!

Mon, 09 Aug 2010 15:05:50 GMT

You're my only hope! I managed to lose my program book at some point on Sunday, so I now have no way to check the answer to this maddening question:

Did I completely hallucinate the listing of a Doctor Who vid to "Take on Me" by A-ha? I can't find it in any of the vid show posts and I know I didn't see it at the con, and yet I feel like I talked about wanting to see it with other people who would (probably) have noticed if I were hallucinating. I think.

Help?

ETA: Okay, yes, there it is right on the DVD set. I am apparently having difficulties with reading this morning. Thanks for reassuring me, peeps!

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My Doctor Who 5x12 Reaction Post

Sun, 20 Jun 2010 14:14:53 GMT

Live (well, live on the morning after) from Con.Txt, here is my reaction:

( My reaction, let me show you it. )

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This is what VividCon does to you.

Wed, 19 Aug 2009 01:18:39 GMT

I am now sitting here looking up Varg Veum on youtube (after also looking him up on Wikipedia). I just watched all the trailers, despite them all being in, you know, Norwegian, and then I found a five minute clip from the sixth movie with subtitles and lesbians. SEND HELP. OR MORE CLIPS OF VARG VEUM.

(For people who did not see the vid at VividCon--I don't think it's online yet, alas--uh, they are a series of movies based on a series of novels about a (Norwegian!) private investigator, and there is a lot of blood and violence and people dying and, now that I think about it, an actual dead woman in an actual refrigerator. But Varg seems really, you know... sad about it all. And blond. I possibly have a type.)

(Apparently in Norway people say "Hi" pretty much like here! It's the one word I understood. \o/)

Also, I am more aware of HOLY CRAP JOSS WHEDON YOU HAVE SOME ISSUES than I was before I watched a lot of Buffy, Firefly/Serenity, and Dollhouse vids all in one weekend. HOLY CRAP, JOSS WHEDON, YOU HAVE SOME ISSUES.

Mostly unrelated to VividCon, I am now all caught up on season five of CSI NY and then I bit off all the nails on my left hand. Why is it not September 23 right now? Damn cliffhangers.

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oh! right!

Mon, 17 Aug 2009 00:12:22 GMT

So, hey! I forgot to really mention it at all, but I've been at VividCon since Thursday. It was excellent as it always is, and I forgot to take a hoodie with me and the hotel is cold, so I HAD to spend all that time hugging people (mostly iulia and frostfire). That's my story, and I'm sticking to it.

Iulia and I have come home convinced that no, seriously, we mean it this time, we are going to make a vid. In light of the fact that I had four hours of sleep last night, Iulia is gently but firmly ignoring the ideas I came up with while driving home, which is probably for the best.

I am eyeing the poll for what bandom story you'd like me to tell with a combination of excitement and trepidation (the Spencer/Bob story, currently tied for first choice in the poll, is really long, okay? even in its summarized form, it is really insanely long). So we'll see how that shakes out and when; probably this post is as much prose composition as I should be attempting today.

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bright and shiny holiday weekend

Mon, 25 May 2009 20:05:27 GMT

Sooooo I kind of accidentally attended WisCon this weekend--( Oops... )

Oh, and I left Madison without getting a tattoo even though it did sound like kind of a fabulous idea at various points through the weekend (there was a holiday sale on and everything) and I could totally have blamed it on commodorified and fairestcat and their awesome text tattoos. And I saw ellen_fremedon and bipagan and jessica_freely and did not feel compelled to blame them for anything, which may mean that they need to blame me for things instead, idk.

Also, as one does, I started reading Here Be Hippogriffs from the beginning, which was in 2004. It's an infertility/parenting blog - not to trivialize this woman's real life which has included struggles I cannot imagine, but it's like real-life kidfic, precocious child and happy ending and all! Aaaand I stayed up until 2AM reading it last night and am still not done yet.

So, uh, that's what I've been up to. And you?

ETA of *facepalm*: and finally met, and crashed with (and made exclamations of "You taught me how Archie Kennedy's pants work!" and "Of course I remember that Due South regency AU you were writing!" to) damned_colonial!

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